Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Visual Studio 2012 Test Types -- Software testing in Visual Studio 2012 -- Testing as part of Software Development Life Cycle -- Types of testing -- Unit testing -- Manual testing -- Exploratory testing -- Web performance tests -- Coded UI Test -- Load testing -- Ordered test -- Generic test -- Test management in Visual Studio 2012 -- Introduction to testing tools -- Test Explorer -- Code coverage results -- Microsoft Test Manager -- Connecting to Team Project -- Test Plans, suites, and test cases -- Defining test cases -- Lab Center -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Test Plan, Test Suite, and Manual Testing -- Test Plan -- Test Suite and its types -- Static Test Suites -- Query-based Test Suites -- Requirement-based Test Suites -- Running manual tests -- Action recording -- Shared steps and action recording for shared steps -- Creating shared steps -- Action recording for shared steps -- Adding parameters to manual tests -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Automated Tests -- Coded UI tests from action recordings -- Files generated for coded UI test -- CodedUITest1.cs -- UIMap.Designer.cs -- UIMap.cs -- UiMap.uitest -- Data-driven coded UI test -- Adding controls and validation to coded UI test -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Unit Testing -- Creating unit tests -- Assert statements -- Types of Asserts -- Assert -- StringAsserts -- CollectionAssert -- AssertFailedException -- UnitTestAssertionException -- ExpectedExceptionAttribute -- Unit Tests and Generics -- Data-driven unit testing -- Unit Testing using Fakes -- Stubs -- Shims -- Difference between Stubs and Shims -- Code coverage unit test -- Blocks and lines -- Excluding elements -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Web Performance Test -- Creating the web performance test.

Recording a test -- Adding comments -- Cleaning the recorded tests -- Copying the requests -- Adding Loops -- Web performance test editor -- Web test properties -- Web test request properties -- Other request properties -- Form POST Parameters -- QueryString parameters -- Extraction rules -- Validation rules -- Transactions -- Conditional rules -- Toolbar properties -- Add data source -- Setting credentials -- Add recording -- Parameterize web server -- Adding a web test plug-in -- Debugging and running the web test -- Settings in the .testsettings file -- General -- Roles -- Data and Diagnostics -- Deployment -- Setup and Cleanup Scripts -- Hosts -- Test Timeouts -- Unit Test -- Web Test -- Running the test -- Web Browser -- Request -- Response -- Context -- Details -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Advanced Web Testing -- Dynamic parameters in web testing -- Coded web test -- Generating code from a recorded test -- Transactions in coded tests -- Custom code -- Adding a comment -- Running the coded web test -- Debugging coded web test -- Custom rules -- Extraction rules -- Validation rules -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Load Testing -- Creating a Load Test -- Load Test Wizard -- Specifying a scenario -- Counter sets -- Run Settings -- Editing Load Tests -- Adding context parameters -- Storing results in central result store -- Running the Load Test -- Analyzing and exporting Test Results -- Graphical view -- Summary view -- Tables view -- Detail view -- Exporting to Microsoft Excel -- Using Test Controller and Test Agents -- Test Controller and Test Agent Configuration -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Ordered and Generic Tests -- Ordered tests -- Creating an ordered test -- Executing an ordered test -- Generic tests -- Creating a generic test -- The summary results file -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Managing and Configuring Tests -- Using Test settings -- The General option.

The Roles option -- Data and Diagnostics -- The Deployment section -- Setup and Cleanup Scripts -- The Hosts option -- The Test Timeouts option -- The Unit Test option -- Editing the test run configuration file -- The Web test option -- Configuring unit tests using the .runsettings file -- Summary -- Chapter 10: A Command Line -- VSTest.Console utility -- Running tests using VSTest.Console -- The /Tests option -- The /ListTests option -- MSTest utility -- Running a test from the command line -- The /testcontainer option -- The /testmetadata option -- The /test option -- The /unique option -- The /noisolation option -- The /testsettings option -- The /resultsfile option -- The /noresults option -- The /nologo option -- The /detail option -- Publishing Test Results -- The /publish option -- The /publishbuild option -- The /flavour option -- The /platform option -- The /publishresultsfile option -- Step 1 - create/use existing test project -- TCM command line utility -- Importing tests to a Test Plan -- Running tests in a Test Plan -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Working with Test Results -- Test runs and test results -- Test as part of the Team Foundation Server build -- Building report and test result -- Creating a work item from the result -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Exploratory Testing and Reporting -- Exploratory testing -- Reports using Team Foundation Server -- Bug status report -- Test case readiness report -- Status on all iterations -- Other out-of-the-box reports -- Creating a report definition using Visual Studio 2012 -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Test and Lab Center -- Connecting to Team Project -- Testing Center -- Testing Center - Plan tab -- Testing Center - Test tab -- Test Center - Track tab -- Test Center - Organize tab -- Lab Center -- Environments -- Deployed environments -- Summary -- Index.